Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 261

justkim · 12-27-2010, 04:15 PM

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle -

Tcountry · 12-28-2010, 03:28 AM

"What you risk reveals what you value"--Winterdon

StillettoDoll · 12-28-2010, 05:21 AM

"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity" Sammy Davis. Jr.

"The Designated Driver program, it's not a desirable job. But If you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house." Jeff Foxworthy

JakeTulane · 12-28-2010, 10:57 AM

"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill

JakeTulane · 12-28-2010, 10:59 AM

"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them." -- John Seely Brown

JakeTulane · 12-28-2010, 11:01 AM

“You can shed tears that she is gone,

or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind,

be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want:

smile, open your eyes, love and go on.” - David Harkins

Spirit Dancer · 12-28-2010, 11:22 AM

Patience is power. With time and
patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

Chinese proverb

Spirit Dancer · 12-28-2010, 11:23 AM

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you will but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

James Allen

Fancy · 12-28-2010, 12:11 PM

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~Ray Bradbury

justkim · 12-28-2010, 12:38 PM

"I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough."
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -

little_ms_sunshyne · 12-28-2010, 04:27 PM

"I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night."

When Harry Met Sally

Mister Bent · 12-28-2010, 06:51 PM

I have seen women like you before, baby. You're double-tough and you are sharp as a razor, and you get what you want or else;
but you don't make it work forever. Sooner or later the lightning hits, and I'm not gonna be around when it hits you.

From The Grifters

Enchantress · 12-28-2010, 11:28 PM

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

~ Mother Theresa

Ms. Meander · 12-29-2010, 08:04 AM

It occurred to her that despite the failure of her marriage, the failure of her career, despite her hangover and chronic horniness, she suddenly was feeling rather light and giddy. She couldn't understand it. Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.

- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs And All

Rook · 12-29-2010, 08:39 AM

"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."

"Hell is the drooling dream of the sadist, crudelly affixed to an all-merciful God, if even human governments are willing to curtail cruel and unusual punishments, why would punishment in the afterlife not be restricted to a limited term? Human belief or action should not merit Infinite punishment. If an afterlife of just deserts exists ,the longest and most severe punishment would be reserved for those who "slandered God by inventing Hell"

Tucker · 12-29-2010, 09:42 AM

Amore senza baruffa fa la muffa.

Soon · 12-29-2010, 09:45 AM

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

~bell hooks

Nat · 12-29-2010, 03:34 PM

"Any step in individuation is experienced as a crime against the collective because it challenges the individual's identification with some representative of the collective - whether it be a family, party, church or nation. At the same time, each step - since it is truly an inflated act - is not only accompanied by guilt but also runs the very real risk that one will get caught in an inflation that carries the consequences of a fall." - Edward F. Edinger

jenny · 12-29-2010, 07:25 PM

"There are still a few men who love desperately." ~ J.D. Salinger

Soon · 12-29-2010, 10:07 PM

"My idea of feminism is self-determination,
and it´s very open-ended:
every woman has the right to become herself,
and do whatever she needs to do."

-- Ani DiFranco

12-28-2010, 03:28 AM	#5202
Tcountry Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Country Boi Preferred Pronoun?: call it as u see it Relationship Status: Completely...complete ;) Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Either at the beach or in the pool Posts: 1,665 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,929 Thanked 4,287 Times in 1,181 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"What you risk reveals what you value"--Winterdon __________________ "You don't Find life worth living; You MAKE IT that way"

12-28-2010, 05:21 AM	#5203
StillettoDoll Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Lady Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 2,824 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,779 Thanked 3,849 Times in 1,469 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity" Sammy Davis. Jr. "The Designated Driver program, it's not a desirable job. But If you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house." Jeff Foxworthy __________________

12-28-2010, 10:57 AM	#5204
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	Some words are worth repeating. "As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill

12-28-2010, 11:22 AM	#5207
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,904 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Patience is power. With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk. Chinese proverb __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

12-28-2010, 11:23 AM	#5208
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,904 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you will but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. James Allen __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

12-27-2010, 04:15 PM	#5201
justkim Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me... Preferred Pronoun?: ... Relationship Status: <3 myself Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ... Posts: 2,023 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,062 Thanked 6,799 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle -

12-28-2010, 10:59 AM	#5205
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them." -- John Seely Brown

12-28-2010, 11:01 AM	#5206
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she's left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, or you can be full of the love you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her only that she is gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she'd want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.” - David Harkins

12-28-2010, 12:11 PM	#5209
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,077 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury

12-28-2010, 12:38 PM	#5210
justkim Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me... Preferred Pronoun?: ... Relationship Status: <3 myself Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ... Posts: 2,023 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,062 Thanked 6,799 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -

12-28-2010, 04:27 PM	#5211
little_ms_sunshyne Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: . Posts: 3,312 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,339 Thanked 12,241 Times in 2,541 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night." When Harry Met Sally

12-28-2010, 06:51 PM	#5212
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I have seen women like you before, baby. You're double-tough and you are sharp as a razor, and you get what you want or else; but you don't make it work forever. Sooner or later the lightning hits, and I'm not gonna be around when it hits you. From The Grifters __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

12-28-2010, 11:28 PM	#5213
Enchantress Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A complex confection. Preferred Pronoun?: Miss Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The land of milk and honey. Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 741 Thanked 3,420 Times in 1,200 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." ~ Mother Theresa

12-29-2010, 08:04 AM	#5214
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,211 Times in 1,147 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	It occurred to her that despite the failure of her marriage, the failure of her career, despite her hangover and chronic horniness, she suddenly was feeling rather light and giddy. She couldn't understand it. Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves. - Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs And All __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

12-29-2010, 08:39 AM	#5215
Rook Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A.G - Stone Butch - GenderFuck Preferred Pronoun?: Hym, Hyz...or, just b respectable, it's not that hard.. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Columbus Posts: 2,280 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,227 Thanked 3,182 Times in 1,287 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Isaac Asimov "If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul." "Hell is the drooling dream of the sadist, crudelly affixed to an all-merciful God, if even human governments are willing to curtail cruel and unusual punishments, why would punishment in the afterlife not be restricted to a limited term? Human belief or action should not merit Infinite punishment. If an afterlife of just deserts exists ,the longest and most severe punishment would be reserved for those who "slandered God by inventing Hell" __________________

12-29-2010, 09:42 AM	#5216
Tucker Member How Do You Identify?: A pretty little thing Preferred Pronoun?: Fatale Relationship Status: Independently owned and operated Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Afternoons in Utopia. Posts: 832 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,090 Thanked 1,292 Times in 486 Posts Rep Power: 3051091	Love without fight grows mold Amore senza baruffa fa la muffa.

12-29-2010, 09:45 AM	#5217
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. ~bell hooks

12-29-2010, 03:34 PM	#5218
Nat Senior Member How Do You Identify?: bigender (DID System) Preferred Pronoun?: he/him or alter-specific Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Central TX Posts: 3,537 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,047 Thanked 13,968 Times in 2,589 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"Any step in individuation is experienced as a crime against the collective because it challenges the individual's identification with some representative of the collective - whether it be a family, party, church or nation. At the same time, each step - since it is truly an inflated act - is not only accompanied by guilt but also runs the very real risk that one will get caught in an inflation that carries the consequences of a fall." - Edward F. Edinger __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl

12-29-2010, 07:25 PM	#5219
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,594 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"There are still a few men who love desperately." ~ J.D. Salinger __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

12-29-2010, 10:07 PM	#5220
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	"My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it´s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do." -- Ani DiFranco